New Couple??? Rashida Jones was spotted lunching with Jake “I Chopped Taylor Swifts Youthful Cakes” Gyllenhaal Sunday in Los Angeles. The pair were spotted sitting side by side having a meal with friends, sharing laughs over something on her phone. Afterwards they showed his dog Atticus some love. Dang… Rashida is just like her daddy, she stay wit a piece of that “white meat.” Rashida has also dated Tobey Maguire and produer/DJ Marc Ronson — both who are now married. Jake, who is friends with Tobey, also has a newlywed ex — Reese Witherspoon. Guess they might as well get it in eh. SplashNews
Well damn… Think before you tweet. A former teacher turned radio commentator and a math tutor who lives with his mother sit in a prison in southern Mexico, facing possible 30-year sentences for terrorism and sabotage in what may be the most serious charges ever brought against anyone using a Twitter social network account. Prosecutors say the defendants helped cause a chaos of car crashes and panic as parents in the Gulf Coast city of Veracruz rushed to save their children because of false reports that gunmen were attacking schools. Gerardo Buganza, interior secretary for Veracruz state, compared the panic to that caused by Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast of “The War of the Worlds.” But he said the fear roused by that account of a Martian invasion of New Jersey “was small compared to what happened here.” “Here, there were 26 car accidents, or people left their cars in the middle of the streets to run and pick up their children, because they thought these things were occurring at their kids’ schools,” Buganza told local reporters. The charges say the messages caused such panic that emergency numbers “totally collapsed because people were terrified,” damaging service for real emergencies. The perpetrator, Gilberto Martinez Vera, began to tweet after seeing military action and hearing rumors of endangered children “My sister-in-law just called me all upset, they just kidnapped five children from the school,” Martinez tweeted. In fact, no such kidnappings occurred that day. Defense lawyer Claribel Guevara said the rumors already had started and that Martinez Vera was just relaying what others told him. She said he never claimed to have firsthand knowledge of the incident. But in a subsequent tweet about the kidnap rumor, he said, “I don’t know what time it happened, but it’s true.” He also tweeted that three days earlier, “they mowed down six kids between 13 and 15 in the Hidalgo neighborhood.” While a similar attack occurred, it didn’t involve children. In shock, Vera exclaimed through his lawyer: “How can they possibly do this to me, for re-tweeting a message? I mean, it’s 140 characters. It’s not logical,’” SMH, hope this guy has a good lawyer because 30 years is serious business… Source
So amid all the festival hoopla and luminaries dropping by , I know what you’re really thinking today: How did The Worst Movie EVER ! fare last night in Winchester, Va.? Indeed, the infamous mockbuster had its second theatrical engagement in a late showing at the town’s Alamo Drafthouse, and the numbers are in. Stand back!
Even if the upcoming Marilyn Monroe biopic My Week with Marilyn doesn’t live up to its intriguing promo stills , the casting and styling choices that make Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh such convincing impersonators of Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier are already stunners. Branagh’s Shakespearean gravitas! Williams’ sighing loveliness! This inspires us to revisit other famous actors who played Hollywood legends and see how their appearances measured up. Come on, Judy Davis, get happy!
As soon as Movieline heard that Mad Men ‘s Jared Harris would be playing Sherlock Holmes’s archenemy Moriarty in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock sequel A Game of Shadows , we were intrigued. After all, how would the Sterling Cooper taskmaster stack up against the long line of actors who have played Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s criminal mastermind — including Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Henry Daniell, Paul Freeman and Vincent D’D onofrio? We may not have the answer just yet but we do have the first image of Harris as the “Napoleon of Crime.”
Word hit this week that Orson Welles’ famous lost, unseen film The Other Side of the Wind might finally see the light of day soon. It sounds like great news; people close to the production and who have seen footage say that Welles’ final film, which stars John Huston as a controlling director, is a potential masterpiece. Now, however, Welles’ former partner (and current rights-holder) Oja Kodar has
Posted onDecember 7, 2010by|Comments Off on Is George Lucas Planning to Bring Actors Back From The Dead?
In one of the more bizarre rumors in a while, George Lucas-collaborator Mel Smith (director of Radioland Murders ) claims that Lucas is buying the film rights to dead movie stars in hopes of casting them in a movie with the help of digital effects. Given his track record for the last ten years, I honestly didn’t think Lucas could do anything that would make my jaw drop for even a moment. But bravo. I was wrong.
Posted onNovember 18, 2010by|Comments Off on Tyra Banks or Stanley Kubrick: Who Has the Better Directing Debut?
Having now watched Tyra Banks’s directing debut from the set of America’s Next Top Model , I’m fairly convinced that she has a better grasp of photography, editing, sound and narrative than many well-known filmmakers did in their own first efforts. Not everyone can be Orson Welles, right? But can she be, say, Stanley Kubrick? Maybe!
The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series “Mercury Theatre on the Air”. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel, 'The War of the Worlds'. The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated “news bulletins”, which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a 'sustaining show' (it ran without commercial breaks), thus adding to the program's quality of realism. Although there were sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of listener response has been debated. In the days following the adaptation, however, there was widespread outrage. Because the program's oration included a segment in which “radio has a responsibility to serve in the public interest at all times,” the news-bulletin format was decried as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast and some confirmed suicides. ————- The Full, Unedited 1938 Welles Production is brought to you in 7 parts: (Part One) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wf5TPVz56A (Part Two) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUBisKB5l98 (Part Three) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejt_aWUrEp8 (Part Four) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aYZPkHEp_s (Part Five) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wxLjcz1oE8 (Part Six) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFLmXZ9Lmk (Part Seven) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuDdAe17OL0 ————— For more on “Yellow Journalism,” please indulge in the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism added by: jeffissleeping
